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Let the good times roll! The KSE is rocketing north once more, foreign exchange remittances by Pakistanis abroad are hitting all time highs and property deals are happening left, right and center. The Pakistani economy is booming, baby!
I was thrilled to see a recent announcement by the much respected Defence Housing Authority, Lahore, concerning their [...]

There is little doubt in the fact that the UAE and Pakistani economies are increasingly inter-twined. On this very blog, we’ve talked about substantial UAE investments in Pakistan, in particular in real-estate, Banking and Telecommunications. And of course, in one of the most important new projects under construction in Pakistan, the $5BN Khalifa Refinery.
This, however, [...]

I was recently in Lahore and I couldn’t help but notice the immense amount of commercial construction happening in the city. Just driving down the Gulberg Main Boulevard one can see numerous high rises being built. This process has been going on for the last many years and does not appear to be slowing down [...]

This post is not about the latest infrastructure project in Pakistan, or the newest startup out of Lahore. I am not going to be talking about the usual things I focus on here at Tech Lahore. Today, for some strange reason, I feel an urge to go a little bit deeper than usual and share [...]

News has reached us from Beijing that several Chinese companies are bidding for the Lahore Software Park project on a Built-Operate-Transfer basis. China has done a wonderful job in many of its own provinces by rapidly upgrading infrastructure and building out very impressive software parks and special IT and export zones. Making use of the [...]

The New Scientist published a story about LUMS‘ PMB (Poor Man’s Broadband) software. This is a peer to peer architecture that is designed to accelerate downloads. It works somewhat like BitTorrent and other P2P applications, but there are some fundamental differences as well. For one, it’s focused on dialup users. For another, it implements pre-fetching [...]

I recently heard a rather shocking story involving a local software firm (which we will leave unnamed, for it is barely germane to the rest of the story) and one of its former employees. Apparently, said company was having some payment problems with a foreign customer. By all accounts, the foreign customer was being quite [...]